Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“This is a man’s first, last, and greatest fear: a world that exists empty of him.”

Lady Macbeth: A Novel by Ava Reid

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I have to admit I’m torn about this book. The first couple of chapters, I wasn’t really a fan, then I started really enjoying it. Now having finished and letting it all sink in, I’m back to poking large holes in it. Lady Macbeth (claims) to tell the feminist reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, told from the perspective of the aforementioned Lady Macbeth. Only instead of the forty-something woman named Gruoch pushing Macbeth towards power for herself as well as him, we have Roscille, the seventeen […]

Meep Meep

Snake-eater by T. Kingfisher

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I received a free ARC of this book from NetGalley. This hasn’t affected the contents of my review. As I think I’ve mentioned here before, I love T. Kingfisher’s writing, so was excited that she had a new book out (even though I’m mildly disappointed that it’s not a new novel from the world of the White Rat yet). Snake-eater is a bit hard to classify. I think it’s meant to be a horror, but it’s also very cozy. The beginning is quite slow, but […]

Short story struggles are worth it

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

Even Greater Mistakes by Charlie Jane Anders

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I am very bad at reading short story collections. Something in me says that if it’s in one volume, then it’s one story. So when the chapters don’t go together, I get confused even though I know they are independent stories and not actually chapters. But I like short stories, so I get through them by reading at least a few books between the stories. I got through two collections this year. In the preface to The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu says, […]

Judging some books by their covers

Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

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A few months ago on vacation, my niece and I stopped in a bookstore to browse. We saw the Shady Hollow series display at the same time and both said, “Ooooh.” These books have the most charming covers, so I downloaded the first one from my library to read on the flight home. Naturally, my hope was that the story would be just as charming so I could justify buying them all to hoard like a dragon. Sadly, ’twas not to be. Shady Hollow, a cozy mystery […]

I love the holidays!

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A HUGE thank you to Little_Plat for my book exchange gifts! I’ve been very big into romance this year, helped by winning a trip to and attending Romchella back in September. Should I make a post about that? Probably. Anyway. Meghan Quinn is a go to for a lot of folx so I knew I wanted to check these out. Thanks for contributing to my romance addiction, and for the beautiful sprayed edges on Merry Christmas You Filthy Animal!

I will be celebrating Jenkins July this year!

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Thank you KatSings!!! I’ve read a couple of Beverly Jenkins’s books as advance reader copies, but when considering diving into her backlist felt paralyzed by the number of choices. I had already planned to overcome that by participating in Jenkins July in 2026, and now KatSings has removed my mental barriers. I’m so excited!



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